He turns potatoes into pebbles, cheese into oil and Ferran Adrià calls him the best chef in the world

When the world’s finest chefs assemble in London on Monday night to discover
who will take the crown in the tenth annual World’s 50 Best Restaurants
Awards, a softly spoken, bespectacled Spaniard will have particular cause
for nerves.

Andoni Luis Aduriz has watched his restaurant, Mugaritz, steadily climb the
rankings since it became the highest new entry six years ago. Last year, it
made No 3 and this year he is widely tipped to take the top spot. If this
were a public hustings – which in a way it is, being a poll of 800 food
experts from around the